Wallingford, Seattle

Road Diets, Gas Works, Farmers Market: WCC meeting

This Wednesday, October 6th, in room 202 of the Good Shepherd Center will be a whirlwind tour of everything going on in the community. It should be entertaining and we encourage everyone to come out. From 7:00 to 7:15 we'll quickly do an introduction round table and mention budget cuts impacting Wallingford such as the closure of the Fremont District Coordinator office. We will then vote on a N Green Lake Way road diet proposal if we can reach consensus before the meeting.…

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Wallingford Geography Challenge

Occasional Wallyhood contributor and constant Wallingford historian Paul Dorpat wrote us recently with a challenge: Below are two photographs, one map and a Wallyhood reader challenge. The map is a 1912 Baist Real Estate Map that shows the Gas Works Point (aka Wallingford Peninsula) still with the old street names. Part of the challenge is that I will not update the names, but there are enough clues or evidences in the map to make the "translations" or name changes possible for…

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Comment Policy

Since the dawn of the Wallyhood blog in January 2009, we've been pretty lucky to only have two or three times when we felt we needed to remove a comment left by a reader. Discourse has been remarkably reasonable: people with radically differing opinions have listened to each other, complimented one another when a good point was made, and occasionally admitted when they were wrong. It has all been very fitting for the character that we admire in Wallingford: thoughtful, inquisitive,…

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Wallingford’s ‘Best Of’ Nominees

The King 5/Evening Magazine's "Best of Western Washington" is a time honored tradition here in...well...Western Washington.  It's a chance for local businesses to be chosen as "the best" in their category by popular vote. This year, there are a total of 8,700 nominees from all of Western Washington, and of those, 115 of them are Wallingford businesses in 73 different categories.  We've put together a list of our "favorite" favorites so you can vote on who you like (oh, and, pssst...your favorite…

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Hamilton’s Community Celebration

While Saturday’s Community Celebration at Hamilton International Middle School had a little lower turnout than the ribbon cutting ceremony, there were still plenty of students eager to show parents their lockers and classrooms during the open house. Visitors had access to all three floors of the school and were treated to the sounds of Hamilton’s marimba ensemble on the outside courts, as well as the jazz band that played in their own classroom on the ground floor. Have a look inside the…

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Cubes Cubed

Okay, I know cars are evil.  They spawn obesity, strip malls, suburbs, social isolation, oil wars, pollution, and the destruction of the atmopshere. But sometimes, they're so darn cute! Witness these darling Nissan Cubes cropping up around the neighborhood.  A trend?

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Hurley House

Walk into Joe's house, and you can see through walls. You may remember the spot the house stands on: right across from Mosaic Coffeehouse, between 1st and 2nd Ave NE, we covered back in early 2009 when they knocked down the tiny old house that stood on the property previously. We can't find a link to our post from the time, but Google Maps remembers what it looks like, and if you want a piece of it, just head down to…

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